Full changelog and readme if anyone's interested.
According to the thread on WoG this patch is official so it should find its way into the Steam and GoG releases.

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I'd just like to interject here and point out that I'm not going to say anything to spoil the mood, Chief. I'll just float here and watch. Don't mind me, just sitting here, floating and watching, that's me.

Originally Posted by joxer
Great they release this 2 days before Risen 2 is available…

What shall I do now? Install G3 and then paralelly play both games in a few days or what… Man…

From the reviews I would suggest that you play Risen 2 first and then Gothic 3. I think that you will be dissapointed with Risen 2 if you played Gothic 3 first (Gothic 3 is on much higher scale at least with regards to the world size (>100hours), factions (4-5 factions that you can join or not) and therefore choices and consequences).

I finished G3 ages ago. But it was without those community patches and stuff.
Nevertheless I've enjoyed it, but also because of some stutter problems and things like that, never replayed it - perhaps it's finally time to run it again.

Originally Posted by SpoonFULL
From the reviews I would suggest that you play Risen 2 first and then Gothic 3. I think that you will be dissapointed with Risen 2 if you played Gothic 3 first (Gothic 3 is on much higher scale at least with regards to the world size (>100hours), factions (4-5 factions that you can join or not) and therefore choices and consequences).

I'd just like to interject here and point out that I'm not going to say anything to spoil the mood, Chief. I'll just float here and watch. Don't mind me, just sitting here, floating and watching, that's me.

I'll do a before/after on the game start(*) during the weekend but I am not expecting to see significant FPS drop on a modern system (with at least a 1 GB Gfx card bought the last couple of years) myself either…

(* a very good benchmark due to the large melee and drawdistance outside of Ardea)

For all of you who already downloaded the "old" patch 1.75 there is an update file so that you do not have download the whole patch again. Copy both files into the "Data" folder of your Gothic 3 installation.Update for 1.75.14 (from 24.04.2012!!!)

I was hoping the performance would've improved (since they use some new faster shader function now) but i think it seems a bit worse actually from 1.74. The small pauses occured very frequently now, they're short but it's annoying that they happen so often, takes you out of the experience. Standing still in one place and then rotating the camera around my character would freeze the screen, every 3-4 seconds or so. You'd think after a while it would have loaded everything in memory and it would be smooth, but no..

Oblivion has stuttering too when loading new zones, but many people don't seem to mind.. personally i hate it, especially since you play those games mostly for the running around and exploring stuff aspect That's the beauty and those games, the frequent pauses breaks the immersion in a big way and kills the fun of exploring.

I think this will be the last time i try Gothic3, just not worth bothering with it any more.